232 Quotes by Tom Wolfe

The insomnia factory was open for the day, heading toward peak production.

If you become indignant, this elevates you to the plane of “intellectual.

In this respect, Darwinism was typical of the more primitive cosmogonies. They avoided the question of how the world developed ex nihilo. Darwin.

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that’s the way people think. I don’t think people think in essays; it’s one exclamation point to another.

The only thing that had truly stuck in Sherman’s mind about Christopher Marlowe, after nine years at Buckley, four years at St. Paul’s, and four years at Yale, was that you were, in fact, supposed to know who Christopher Marlowe was.

The figures were averages and averages applied to those with average stuff.

It’s not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives – lends verisimilitude to what you are doing – it’s that it feeds the imagination.

Mountain Girl tries to concentrate, but the words swim like great waves of... The words swim by and she hears the sound but it is like her cerebral cortex is tuned out to the content of it. Her mind keeps rolling and spinning over another set of data, always the same. Like – the eternal desperate calculation. In short, Mountain Girl is pregnant.

Television reporters aren’t really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that’s really all they are.